AWS Storage Gateway - Using Your Volume

AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Using Your Volume
Using Your Volume (p. 65)
Using Your Volume
Following, you can find instructions about how to use your volume. To use your volume, you first connect
it to your client as an iSCSI target, then initialize and format it.
Topics
• Connecting Your Volumes to Your Client (p. 65)
• Initializing and Formatting Your Volume (p. 66)
• Testing Your Gateway (p. 68)
• Where Do I Go from Here? (p. 69)
Connecting Your Volumes to Your Client
You use the iSCSI initiator in your client to connect to your volumes. At the end of the following
procedure, the volumes become available as local devices on your client.
Important
With AWS Storage Gateway, you can connect multiple hosts to the same volume if the hosts
coordinate access by using Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). You can't connect
multiple hosts to the same volume without using WSFC, for example by sharing a nonclustered
NTFS/ext4 file system.
Topics
• Connecting to a Microsoft Windows Client (p. 65)
• Connecting to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (p. 65)
Connecting to a Microsoft Windows Client
The following procedure shows a summary of the steps that you follow to connect to a Windows client.
For more information, see Connecting iSCSI Initiators (p. 364).
To connect to a Windows client
1. Start iscsicpl.exe.
2. In the iSCSI Initiator Properties dialog box, choose the Discovery tab, and then choose Discovery
Portal.
3. In the Discover Target Portal dialog box, type the IP address of your iSCSI target for IP address or
DNS name.
4. Connect the new target portal to the storage volume target on the gateway.
5. Choose the target, and then choose Connect.
6. In the Targets tab, make sure that the target status has the value Connected, indicating the target is
connected, and then choose OK.
Connecting to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client
The following procedure shows a summary of the steps that you follow to connect to a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) client. For more information, see Connecting iSCSI Initiators (p. 364).
To connect a Linux client to iSCSI targets
1. Install the iscsi-initiator-utils RPM package.
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